Pointed Discussion

Possibly one of the best DFC in limited, it that both of his forms are relevant. Sure, Kruin Outlaw is better, but is a)rare b)less splashable.

Warrior's shouldn't have defender. >:O

I love the irony present on many of the double-faced cards. Actually, Innistrad might as well be the irony set.

Very interesting card. The low mana cost, I think, might make him playable. Defenders have always been frowned upon because they don't really further your own game; knowing that the defender you just cast for 3 can turn into a big ol' 5/5 juggernaut at the drop of a hat is very nice, indeed.

I'm a bit curious as to why a MONO-RED card is a 1/5 defender, that stays such if you play spells, which tends to be red's thing.
They could at least have given him a ping-ability, as he has a crossbow.
What is this? Color pie, why have you forsaken me?

So why exactly did Wizards decide to give each side of double-faced cards a seperate rating system?

I can see this can give them a more distinctive feedback about what players think about either half.
But in that case why didn't they do this for flip and especially split cards? The latter can be easily put into a deck for just either half.

@Dr.Pingas: I don't feel like this is in the wrong color. There have been red defenders before, and this one can easily become a 5 power Fire Wall without spending any mana.
A ping ability would have suited the artwork indeed. And it would have been intersting since you'd have to decide of you want to ping or keep it as a defender (since he'd lose his ability through transforming). But this was probably already good enough for limited as it is.

Seems more like a Soldier then a Warrior to me. And that BIG crossbow only deals 1 damage? That also seems wrong.

Red is one of the two spell colors. Transform this the following round by saving an instant like Violent Eruption for your opponent's turn to clear the way.

As others have said, why does a human, red, WARRIOR with a giant arbalest have p/t of 1/5?

He seems more like he'd be, I don't know, 2/3 first strike?

Take THAT Porcelain Legionnaire!

You end your turn.
It will attack on your opponents turn.
Then it will attack again on your turn.
Isn't that grand?
3cmc for 5 toughness
this card got me 1st play at fnm with 8-0-0
more than half of the games i played won by using this.
4-ofs

@Bonnynoy: You were just joking, right? I'm kinda slow to figure out if people are just being funny or actually being stupid. Sorry.

Well, its human side's color doesn't make much sense flavor-wise . In that aspect, it would have been better as a white human (maybe a even soldier) that transformed into a red 'wolf (like Cloistered Youth). But that wouldn't make much sense gameplay-wise, so better keep it as it is.
I sincerely don't have a clue about how good this is. Human side seems nice enough for blocking because of high-thoughness, while wolf side seems like a big beatstick, and it could be nice to have something to resort to in case you don't have any spells to cast (which happens quite often in Red). But it's not very impressive.

How doesn't the flavor make sense? He's a watchmen. He guards things, hence defender and warrior. He has the standard werewolf transformation effect, which does go counter to the red, but it makes sense from the perspective of flavor since all werewolves transform the same way (so far). He has such high toughness probably because it's taking into account the walls and armor protecting him. And his power is low because that's normal for archers. Really from a flavor perspective is the only way he makes sense, because really he should be white.

This is one of my favorite limited cards. Gets out of control almost immediately, demands attention - cheap! I'll take 3.

So, um I blew up this guys art....

Does anybody else think his human side is trying to compensate for something?

Personally, my take on the flavour is that he's on wolf watch and he is hesitating at shooting his "kin", thus his power is below the norm for red at that CMC. I know it doesn't explain why his power isn't higher vs other creatures but at the end of the day, they can only go so far with flavour vs function. As someone who has MAJOR issues with flavour fails such as Xathrid Necromancer(I get that necros rez all manner of things, but it really was a perfect opportunity to use zombies in the art)my reasoning above sits ok with me.

Wow, this guy's actually good. Not just legacy playable, legacy played. As a four of. Pretty good card.